You held the door
Looking over your shoulder
Face to the floor
It was already over
They took a good look at you
They knew that you couldn’t follow through
Just stood there and laughed at you
What could I do?

Warm sand underneath my feet
No promises left for you to keep
Fortune smiling back at me
Forgetting the things that couldn’t be

I pulled at your dress
But you took no notice
You left me to guess
Your desperate motives
Left here as unfamiliar eyes
Held you and pushed me aside
Aching with blame I
Watched from inside

Warm sand underneath my feet
No promises left for you to keep
Fortune smiling back at me
Forgetting the things that couldn’t be
The things that might have been
The things that should have been

Warm sand underneath my feet
No promises left for you to keep
Fortune smiling back at me
Forgetting
Warm sand underneath my feet
No promises left for you to keep
Fortune smiling back at me
Forgetting the things that could have been
The things that might have been
The things that should have been

This old cracked ceiling
Is creeking at you
It seems to know the feeling
Of breaking like you do
You came here to test yourself
To take it all on
In stead you’ve made a mess of yourself
You’ve been having too much fun
And now you’re fighting strangers
And shadows on the wall
And voices in your head
Saying ’Why am I here at all?’

You’ve ruled out your choices
Like the loyalist you are
And drowned all those noises
Strumming your guitar
Wrapped in cold comfort
A brief and short-lived kick
Another can of Export
That ought to do the trick
Cause she used to come home early
Just to be with you
And now it’s getting later
And there’s really nothing you can do

I came here to save you
Though I know I never could
I don’t wanna change you
I just wish you understood
That you are just a puppet
In a poetess’ play
And it’s time to cut the strings now
It’s time to walk away

Another early hour
Another painful kiss
Climb back up in your tower
Go dream of what you miss
You came here to calm yourself
To set yourself free
In stead you’re alarmed as hell
Cause now you know you never will be
This is your illusion
These are your dreams
This is your life
And it’s never what it seems

I came here to save you
Though I know I never could
I don’t wanna change you
I just wish you understood
That you are just a puppet
In a poetess’ play
And it’s time to cut the strings now
It’s time to walk away

There’s nothing like doubt tearing your mind
To leave you muddled up and blind
There’s nothing like fear riding your soul
To leave you stone cold
There’s nothing like rain falling in the night
From a vast hidden height
Falling like tears from the dark sky’s lonely eye

There’s nothing like heat biting your skin
To let you boil from within
There’s nothing like sweat dripping down your sides
Gleaming nights
There’s nothing like flames licking in the air
Hungry, without a care
Licking like tongues, here and there
and everywhere

Let’s get lost
Let these frozen hearts defrost
Whatever the cost, let’s get lost
Let’s get lost
Roll the dice and play our cards
Whatever the cost
Let’s get lost

There’s nothing like hopes taken to the test
To the edge of more or less
There’s nothing like truth cutting to the bone
To leave you overthrown
There’s nothing like hearts breaking in two
As only trusting hearts can do
Breaking like glass, frail and new
What else can we do

Let’s get lost
Let these frozen hearts defrost
Whatever the cost, let’s get lost
Let’s get lost
Roll the dice and play our cards
Whatever the cost
Let’s get lost

I need a room with a view
An armchair by the window
a cup of coffee and a cigarette or two
Watch the sky turn from hazy gray to black
Watch my neighbours go to work
and look exhausted and burned out when they get back
Thinking about you
Thank God for this beautiful view

I recall you took me swimming
the sea was dark and cold
You’d been there many times before
with many different girls, I’d been told
But what’s a man without a past
We love him for his lies
and then we try to break him down to make it last
’til they come true
Thank God for this beautiful view

Beautiful view
You, you, you…
I still love you

The dark is falling and the city fills with lights
Cars like shining pearls on strings
moving through the emptiness of night
The wine is running to my head
I’m spellbound by the moment
can’t get up, can’t find the strength to go to bed
Without you
Thank God for this beautiful view

Beautiful view
You, you, you…
I still love you

I’ve been blind too blind to tell false from true
I’ve been so busy running
never stopped to think where I was running to
But I’ve learned my lesson from the tears I’ve had to cry Sometimes it helps to take your time
to sit alone and watch the world go by
Cause every day it’s new
Thank God for this beautiful view
Every day it’s new
Thank God for this beautiful view
Thank God for this beautiful view

I’ve been walking on egg shells
For so long, too long
It’s been going down hill
Gone so wrong, too long
I’ve been counting the reasons
To try to tell you
Face to face with my deamons
And my fear to lose you

This was not my idea
Believe me
This is not my fantasy
Believe me, leave me, leave me

Cold and undone
You take what you want and leave me on my own
Cold and undone
Just take what you want
And leave me alone

I’ve been hearing these voices
Clearly they tell me
I have run out of choices
’Cause it’s killing me, slowly

This was not my idea
Believe me, leave me, leave me

Cold and undone
You take what you want and leave me on my own
Cold and undone
You take what you want and leave me here so
Cold and undone
You take what you want

And I can’t go on….
I can’t go on….

Now I’m cold and undone
You take what you want and leave me on my own
Cold and undone
You take what you want and leave me here so
Cold and undone
You take what you want and leave me on my own
Cold and undone
Just take what you want and leave me